Darren Harvey

Mr. Darren Harvey is a Chair of Investment Committee & Director at Coolabah Capital Investments Pty Ltd.
and Coolabah Capital Institutional Investments Pty Ltd.
He is jointly responsible for all investment decisioning, portfolio management and risk management, focusing on trade strategy, amongst other things.
Mr. Harvey started his career at McIntosh Hamson Hoare Govett in 1987 in their graduate training program as a Junior Bond Futures Adviser and then Options Adviser.
In 1989, he was headhunted to join Fay Richwhite to establish their bond option sales business.
In that year, he also assumed responsibility for trading interest rate options using Fay Richwhite’s balance-sheet and built a team of interest rate option and share price index traders that included five market-makers in total.
Fay Richwhite went from no activity to the No.1 option market-maker on the Sydney Futures Exchange by volume and reputation.
Mr. Harvey was responsible for all the risk management associated with Fay Richwhite’s exchange-traded derivatives businesses reporting to the Head of Trading.
In 1992 Deutsche Bank recruited him as an Associate Director and Head of Exchange Traded Options to replicate the market making business he had established inside Fay Richwhite.
In 1994 Deutsche Bank, promoted to Director and Head of Exchange Traded and OTC Options, which included a team of six market makers reporting to the Head of Trading.
During this time, he was responsible for principal trading off Deutsche Bank’s balance-sheet across multiple asset classes, including equities, currencies, bonds, commodities, and derivatives.
He was also responsible for risk management and staffing.